Shorewood Man Charged after Undercover Sex Sting

A 50-year-old Shorewood man is facing felony charges after tried to meet with what he thought was a teenage for sex, during a Milwaukee police undercover sting.

According to the criminal complaint, on Oct. 20, James P. Brown began a conversation with a undercover police officer while using an online chat room. He began to flirt with the officer, who told Brown he was 15 years old.

Brown initially told him his profile was misleading between what he said was his age and his actual age, but then said youth didn’t bother him and the two continued to chat.

He and the undercover officer ended the chat and decided to schedule a sexual rendezvous the next day. Officers arrested Brown after they found him near a business on North Oakland Avenue where he thought he was meeting the underage boy.

Brown is charged with one count of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime, which carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and $100,000 in fines. He was assigned a $2,500 cash bond Wednesday and is currently out of custody.

He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Nov. 3.